Let’s end human trafficking in Colorado

Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking

Colorado’s Human Trafficking Hotline

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Join us this Colorado Gives Day for a special night featuring dynamic speakers, Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius, and a musical performance from The Reminders.

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Together we can end exploitation.

Since 2005, the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (LCHT) has been a leader in the movement to end human trafficking in Colorado.

Your help drives progress in anti-trafficking training, community-based research, strengthening Colorado’s 24/7 Human Trafficking Hotline, and developing future human rights leaders.

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Support the movement to end human trafficking.

It’s the human rights issue of our time, and it is happening right here in Colorado.

Human trafficking is a severe form of exploitation of another person involving force, fraud, or coercion for labor or sex. Developing your understanding of this crime is the first step to taking meaningful action.

What’s Happening in Anti-Trafficking

Our Stories

How Stable Housing Can Help End Trafficking in Colorado

How Stable Housing Can Help End Trafficking in Colorado

For many people experiencing homelessness who are in a trafficking situation, it can be hard to get help. In other cases, traffickers may confiscate documents to maintain control. In other words, housing insecurity is both a cause AND a consequence of trafficking.

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Protecting the Rights of Migrant Sheepherders

Protecting the Rights of Migrant Sheepherders

Meet Tom Acker, the Co-Founder of Western Slope Against Trafficking (WSAT), a community partnership that supports survivors of human trafficking and raises awareness about this widespread human rights crisis through training and community education.

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